Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 659 780
Rank change year-on-year -13 +121 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 108 69 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 91 56 91
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +31.94%
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,013 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £58,125 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +12.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +29 26 £46,500 -22.50% 8
Midlands -39 25 £35,000 -13.58% 3
South East -21 21 £43,750 -12.50% 7
South West -29 21 £40,000 +4.58% 8
East Midlands -23 19 £35,000 -39.13% 1
North West -14 14 £45,000 -51.35% 8
Yorkshire +76 12 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -6 6 £40,500 -16.32%
West Midlands -18 6 £46,750 +15.43% 2
Scotland -68 5 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Wales - 3 £40,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +20 1 £32,500 -
Senior IT Engineer
UK

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (46.30%) Windows
2 37 (34.26%) Azure
3 34 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (29.63%) Windows Server
5 32 (29.63%) Firewall
5 32 (29.63%) Active Directory
6 31 (28.70%) VMware
7 27 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 27 (25.00%) DNS
8 26 (24.07%) DHCP
9 19 (17.59%) Hyper-V
10 18 (16.67%) ITIL
11 17 (15.74%) VMware Infrastructure
12 16 (14.81%) Degree
13 15 (13.89%) Cisco
13 15 (13.89%) Driving Licence
13 15 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (12.96%) Entra ID
14 14 (12.96%) Linux
15 11 (10.19%) TCP/IP
15 11 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
16 10 (9.26%) Windows 10
16 10 (9.26%) Finance
16 10 (9.26%) PowerShell
17 9 (8.33%) AWS
17 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
17 9 (8.33%) Social Skills
18 8 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) WordPress
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) Azure
2 33 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (12.96%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.33%) AWS
5 5 (4.63%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.78%) IaaS
6 3 (2.78%) PaaS
6 3 (2.78%) SaaS
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.93%) Dropbox
8 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.63%) Firewall
2 27 (25.00%) DNS
3 26 (24.07%) DHCP
4 11 (10.19%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.41%) SAN
5 8 (7.41%) VLAN
5 8 (7.41%) VPN
6 7 (6.48%) LAN
6 7 (6.48%) VoIP
7 6 (5.56%) Internet
8 4 (3.70%) NAS
8 4 (3.70%) Network Security
8 4 (3.70%) WAN
8 4 (3.70%) WLAN
9 3 (2.78%) HTTP
9 3 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.78%) Wireless
10 2 (1.85%) DKIM
10 2 (1.85%) DMARC
General
1 10 (9.26%) Finance
2 9 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 6 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.63%) Automotive
5 3 (2.78%) Advertising
5 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.93%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.85%) CSS
1 2 (1.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.48%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.63%) CCTV
4 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) Handset
5 2 (1.85%) Replication
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.93%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 50 (46.30%) Windows
2 32 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.96%) Linux
4 10 (9.26%) Windows 10
5 8 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (4.63%) Windows 7
8 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.85%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.93%) AIX
10 1 (0.93%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (16.67%) ITIL
3 15 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (6.48%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.48%) Migration
6 5 (4.63%) Creative Thinking
6 5 (4.63%) Incident Management
6 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 5 (4.63%) Service Management
7 4 (3.70%) High Availability
7 4 (3.70%) Information Security
7 4 (3.70%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (2.78%) Business Continuity
8 3 (2.78%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (2.78%) Load Balancing
8 3 (2.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 3 (2.78%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (2.78%) Project Delivery
8 3 (2.78%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
2 1 (0.93%) SQL
2 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (2.78%) MCP
2 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.93%) CCNA
4 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) GDPR
2 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) COBIT
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 19 (17.59%) Hyper-V
3 17 (15.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.48%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.63%) vSphere
6 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.85%) Firmware
7 2 (1.85%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.93%) Samba
8 1 (0.93%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.78%) NetCrunch
2 3 (2.78%) SCCM
2 3 (2.78%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 31 (28.70%) VMware
2 27 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.89%) Cisco
4 8 (7.41%) Fortinet
5 6 (5.56%) Aruba
5 6 (5.56%) WatchGuard
6 4 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (2.78%) Dell
7 3 (2.78%) Ivanti
7 3 (2.78%) Meraki
7 3 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.78%) Splunk
7 3 (2.78%) Veeam
8 2 (1.85%) Acronis
8 2 (1.85%) Apple
8 2 (1.85%) Citrix
8 2 (1.85%) Commvault
8 2 (1.85%) ConnectWise
8 2 (1.85%) Sage
8 2 (1.85%) Zerto